Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Touring with A Novel Idea LIVE! Interview and Giveaways!

A Novel Idea Live is a
landing pad for readers and a launching pad for authors. Our mission is
to help authors further their career and for readers to discover new
writers. We have many creative ways of helping authors, whether through
our live broadcast show, tips or blog posts we hope to give you
something you can apply and find useful.We hope to offer a cozy community where we all share and grow
together. So come on over and join in the conversation. You won’t
regret all the fun you will have gathering information with us.

What They Offer!

Author Database Listing, 1st book free and packages available for upgrade

Banner ads of various sizes and places on the site

Text listings

Show sponsorships (three shows to choose from)

Guest spots on Live shows

Book Trailers w/voice

Voiced ads for the Live Show

Audio Books

Blog Posts

Newsletters

Information for authors to further their career

Information for readers to discover new authors and learn more about those they already love.

1. Comment to be entered! Leave a comment at each tour stop to increase your chances.

2. Follow A Novel Idea LIVE on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ANovelIdeaLive.

A Novel Idea LIVE will be offering a promotion
package including 1 featured banner (1 week), 1 show sponsor (1 Week), 1
spotlight author (runs the week after) and 1 text author listing. A
$165 value! Hosts will also be entered into a drawing for 2 available guest spots on A Novel Idea LIVE show.

In Their Words!

What inspired
the development of A Novel Idea?

It
started out as just a fun way to do something that we both like –
broadcast. But we soon realized that we
could really turn it into a useful tool for authors. It came after hours and hours of conversation
(yes we talked off air too) about what it was that authors were looking for and
we came up with a way to combine our individual talents and give them a pool of
information and promotion.

Ryan is charge of all things technical and
has vast experience with computers and broadcasting. He offers the most helpful advice by walking
you through the steps to make all your computer and online interactions easy
and extremely useful. As well as making A Novel Idea Live the neatest website
around.

Krista offers years of research in the
self-publishing world and experience with self-promotion and self-publishing as
she has ventured into both worlds. She
has an upbeat personality and many years of experience in entrepreneurship as
well as a background in sales and marketing.

We want to share those with a community
that has changed to become so dependent on using those skills to promote
themselves. And we want those who a part of the community to help and share
with others too.

What do you
feel are some of the greatest challenges facing authors today?

The
biggest challenges for authors are learning that they must take on all the
tasks of marketing and the other is being found. Which are really all connected into one
job. They have to spread their time out
between creating their book and the business of selling their book. It is a challenge and can be
overwhelming. That’s where A Novel Idea
Live comes in. We want to be able to
simplify and help with the process.

What can an
author expect from a live interview?

To
have a lot of fun! The intention of the
show is to help others while also promoting your work. Krista and Ryan ask
questions geared toward the business and what your part in it is. You will be asked to share your experiences
and advise and then we get into the fun part of talking about your books!

What new and
exciting features can we expect from A Novel Idea?

We
have so many exciting things on the horizon.
We have been teasing a Big Announcement in previous weeks, September 9th
will bring the addition of shows. Along
with A Novel Idea Live with Krista Kedrick where authors are interviewed and
advise is given and Attack the Tech with Ryan where he answers all your
questions and walks you through every tech topic relevant to writers we will
have a roundtable discussion show as well as other valuable broadcasts to be
added. The plan is to become a 24 hour a
day network full of information and fun for writers and readers as well as all
the articles.

The searchable database of
authors is in the final stages of production and is available to all authors of
any genre. The first book is free to
list but there will be upgrade packages for more books and content to be listed
for readers to peruse. The database will
also be attached, so to speak, to the bi-weekly Newsletter which will offer
opportunities for authors to be listed as a featured book or author to
subscribers.